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More dill

The other recipe I tried using dill was for biscuits, which I've never made before. These biscuits were good, but the butter was amazing... the biscuit ended up being more of a mechanism for eating the butter than a food itself.

Dill Biscuits

makes about 12

2c all-purpose flour

1t baking powder

1/4t baking soda

1t fine salt

12T cold butter, diced

2T chopped fresh dill

1/2c buttermilk

Preheat oven to 425.

Pulse flour, baking powder and soda, and salt. Add butter and pulse to pea-sized pieces.

Add dill and pulse in buttermilk until dough just comes together.

Transfer to a floured surface and knead 3-5 times. Shape into a disk.

Roll dough until 1/2" thick.

Cut into rounds using a cookie cutter or a glass.

Place on a baking sheet and brush tops with buttermilk.

Bake until golden, 10-12 minutes.

Honey Butter

4T butter, softened

2t honey

1/4t sea salt

Mix all ingredients together until smooth.



Dill

Another one of those ingredients that I've never used before is dill. I didn't even know what it looked like when I went to the store. It ended up coming in such a large quantity that I made more than one recipe with it. First...

Lemon Dill Green Beans

serves 10

2 1/2lb green beans

3T chopped dill

2 1/2T minced shallot

2 1/2T olive oil

2 1/2T lemon juice

2 1/2T whole-grain mustard

3/4t salt

3/4t pepper

Steam green beans.

Whisk dill, shallot, oil, lemon, mustard, salt and pepper. Add green beans and toss.



You can definitely taste the dill in these, so don't try if you know you don't like dill. I thought they were good, and I would make them again, but they definitely weren't nearly as good as these lemon herb butter green beans.